Here is the transcript of a panel event hosted by Respond Crisis Translation and leads across our Ukrainian & Russian, Southwest Asian and North African, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and Indigenous & Marginalized Languages teams.

February 24, 2024, marked two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Respond Crisis Translation’s Ukrainian and Russian (UA RU) Languages Team has been working around the clock since the invasion to support Ukrainian people fighting for their lives and freedom.

Khrystyna Demchenko, a member of our incredible Ukrainian and Russian languages, received the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) Academic Excellence Award for her translation work helping Ukrainian refugees. Khrystyna herself is a refugee of the war, having fled to the United Kingdom from Kyiv after …

Over the past year, the Ukrainian team has translated medical documents for over fifty Ukrainian refugees with a wide range of conditions.  These refugees all fled Ukraine to different countries, including England, Scotland, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Sweden, and France, due to the full-scale invasion (war) in February 2022.

Respond Crisis Translation Ukrainian and Russian teams have worked tirelessly around-the-clock since the start of the war on Russia in 2022. In this video, the head of our Ukrainian and Russian teams Tetyana Grygor'yeva shares her powerful experience leading this work

At Respond, we are providing language support to Ukrainian refugees, and to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and other individuals from around the world in violent systems that refuse to provide them the support they need.

We are looking for translators from Ukrainian to English, German, Czech, Polish and other languages. We are looking for medical and legal translators and proofreaders in English, German, and French.

Language is the biggest treasure of every person and ethnos, without the language there is no nation, the language is the DNA of the nation. Ominously true sound the words of Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko: “Nations do not die of …

The Respond Ukrainian team translated a list of urgent medications needed in Kharkiv for civilians currently being bombarded.

by Ada Wordsworth
I have now spent two full days on the Polish/Ukrainian border. To be honest, I can’t remember two more tiring or emotionally draining days – but that’s no surprise. My respect for people who work with displaced people full time, already high, has shot up even higher….

by Talia Lavin
Insofar as the war in Ukraine is a war about anything, it is a war about language—a war whose ludicrous justification by Vladimir Putin is in part based on the utterly false claim that the Russian language, and its speakers, have been systematically repressed, to the point of genocide, by a merciless, fascist Ukrainian regime…